Dog vision goes viral

Hello 👋 

Welcome to Weekend Rounds, your weekly digest of veterinary news, entertainment and education, courtesy of Obi Veterinary Education.

Since it’s the first week of June, we will kindly remind you that this is the perfect time to kick back, relax, and wonder how on earth we managed to skip through five months of the year already.

Here’s what is goin’ round:

• 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month!

• 💊 Over 90 drugs go from OTC to Rx

• 🐶 Dog vision goes viral on Tik Tok

• 🚀 Quick hits

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month!

It's June, and that means it's time to celebrate Pride Month! We should all be embracing diversity, inclusion, and the spirit of equality all year round, but during Pride Month, we come together to amplify our support for the LGBTQ+ community and spread love in all its vibrant colors.

Pride Month is not just about parades and festivities (although we like those too), it's a time to honor the progress made toward equality, recognize the challenges that still exist, and stand with our LGBTQ+ friends, colleagues, and customers. We believe that everyone deserves to love and be loved, free from prejudice and discrimination.

Whether you identify as LGBTQ+ or as an ally, we encourage you to make your clinic or workplace as inclusive for all as possible.

💊 90+ drugs move to prescription

On June 11th, as part of a multi faceted campaign by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 93 veterinary products that have been available over the counter will require a prescription. The objective of the change, and other similar measures, is to stop the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs that are expediting pathogens' evolution toward resisting the medications.

According to the FDA, this last round of changes includes the last 4% of drugs - as 96% of “medically important antimicrobial drugs” used in nonhuman animals already have already been brought under veterinary oversight over the last decade.

🐶 Dog vision goes viral on Tik Tok

The latest trend on Tik Tok was not a new dance or a new viral sound but rather a bunch of muted colors and confused dog owners as the platform rolled out a ‘Dog Vision Filter’.

It has been pretty interesting to see the general public get a handle on what our canine friends may see through their two-cone retinas. Assuming that dogs are seeing similarly to humans with dichromatic vision, then dogs can distinguish blue and yellow but not red and green.

It is nice to see owners vow to only buy blue or yellow toys for their pups, in hopes of making the world a bit more interesting for them.

@kjlcreationsco

This is so cool. I guess I need to buy more blue toys! #dogvision #dogvisionfilter #germanshepherd

And as this user noted, we may need to find a way to let dogs celebrate pride:

@strawberry696969

#pride #dog #gay #dogvision

📧 Send it ‘round

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re giving away pronoun stethoscope clips to the first 5 people to share Weekend Rounds with 3 colleagues, once those colleague sign up with your referral link below!

They’ll get the same weekly dose of veterinary good vibes that you’ve grown accustomed to, and you’ll be able to encourage more inclusivity in healthcare by showing clients and colleagues your personal pronouns. That’s a win-win.

🚀 Quick hits

Can humans ever understand how animals think? 🔗 The Guardian

Canine cancer monitoring supported with blood test 🔗 Veterinary Practice News

Ultrasound Induces Torpor-Like State in Animals, Experiment Shows 🔗 Science Alert

Educating the next generation of veterinarians in spectrum of care 🔗 AAHA 

Finding and hiring the best job candidate 🔗 AVMA

When Treating a Toxin Exposure, Many Veterinarians Rely on Outside Experts 🔗 Yahoo!

EQT to Buy Dechra for £4.5 Billion After Agreeing Price Cut 🔗 Bloomberg

As wildfires burn in Alberta forests, what happens to the animals? 🔗 CBC

Plastic pollution is so bad for animals it now has a disease name — 'plasticosis' 🔗 CBC